Rocky Balboa
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Post by Rocky Balboa on Feb 3, 2024 7:51:10 GMT -5
Well, this thread has aged poorly.
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jjh1292
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Post by jjh1292 on Feb 3, 2024 8:18:04 GMT -5
Yeah. I’m not liking this already. Cody is over like hell. I feel like if they wait any longer, the crowds going to turn on him. This just doesn’t make sense. If they decide to throw him into the match, it makes things convoluted.
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Post by J-MANN on Feb 3, 2024 8:27:36 GMT -5
Maybe Cody will win the World title from Seth at Mania, and before he even gets to touch the belt - Priest will cash in and beat him.
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jjh1292
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Post by jjh1292 on Feb 3, 2024 8:45:37 GMT -5
Maybe Cody will win the World title from Seth at Mania, and before he even gets to touch the belt - Priest will cash in and beat him. 🤣 it. Have Damian cash in on Roman and the Rock.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Feb 3, 2024 8:51:29 GMT -5
2025 brothers
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Post by Liv Is Life on Feb 3, 2024 8:59:16 GMT -5
If this is all for Dwayne.. I hope the fans sht all over it. Cody haters and casuals may like it but seems like the majority of fans know what the story is and want to see it finished. Give the fans what they want. I enjoy Cody and am FAR from a casual. You run Roman/Rock as soon as you can. You don’t risk losing that opportunity… if it’s there. And this is why Cody should have won last year. He was absolutely at his hottest as an act at that point and they have lucked into mostly maintaining it for the last year. However Rock vs Roman doesn’t and never will need the title involved. Roman also didn’t need to break these longevity records because this is a completely different era than the records he’s breaking are coming from. These types of title reigns worked better when there wasn’t what…8+ hours of active television on any given week from the company the reign was happening in? Let alone all the other active wrestling that youre a remote click or mouse click away from watching….
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tigerlillysingh
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Post by tigerlillysingh on Feb 3, 2024 9:08:22 GMT -5
Ludicrous decisions. Panic-beset in my view. They have the whole Vince thing floating around and are trying to deflect & distract as much as possible and I believe they think by doing this it could overshadow it more than straight up booking Cody Roman.. it’s never happening, we’re never going back to having anything you can faithfully invest in. Oooo you’ve subverted our expectations, well done, see how that’s worked out for Star Wars after TLJ.
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Post by rkmo: Just a Fact of Life on Feb 3, 2024 9:34:13 GMT -5
End the story at a house show in Poughkeepsie
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hbkowns
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Post by hbkowns on Feb 3, 2024 9:46:20 GMT -5
Ludicrous decisions. Panic-beset in my view. They have the whole Vince thing floating around and are trying to deflect & distract as much as possible and I believe they think by doing this it could overshadow it more than straight up booking Cody Roman.. it’s never happening, we’re never going back to having anything you can faithfully invest in. Oooo you’ve subverted our expectations, well done, see how that’s worked out for Star Wars after TLJ. How does booking the Rock in the main event of Mania deflect from the Vince stuff? What does one have to do with the other? I just don’t understand how that changes anything. What I do think happened is Punk got hurt, Brock is done, and they panicked because they thought they had no “star power” for an event that’s essentially sold out and paid for. I think that’s what changed everything. Typical Vince booking, and Vince isn’t even there.
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tigerlillysingh
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Post by tigerlillysingh on Feb 3, 2024 10:36:38 GMT -5
Ludicrous decisions. Panic-beset in my view. They have the whole Vince thing floating around and are trying to deflect & distract as much as possible and I believe they think by doing this it could overshadow it more than straight up booking Cody Roman.. it’s never happening, we’re never going back to having anything you can faithfully invest in. Oooo you’ve subverted our expectations, well done, see how that’s worked out for Star Wars after TLJ. How does booking the Rock in the main event of Mania deflect from the Vince stuff? What does one have to do with the other? I just don’t understand how that changes anything. What I do think happened is Punk got hurt, Brock is done, and they panicked because they thought they had no “star power” for an event that’s essentially sold out and paid for. I think that’s what changed everything. Typical Vince booking, and Vince isn’t even there. It’s, in their minds, “bigger” news, a punt at anyway. It’s all about what creates a bigger smoke cloud from here on thru until that thing is done. I don’t understand their objective with the booking though; they’ve killed Cody off as a credible main eventer. I watched the promo again from him, it makes it worse, it’s absolute cringe inducing vomit that Cody presumably was asked to go out and say. Makes no sense.
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Post by aggressiveperfector on Feb 3, 2024 10:45:25 GMT -5
RomanwinsLOL for another whole ing year WHYYYYYYY!?
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Post by J-MANN on Feb 3, 2024 10:47:15 GMT -5
RomanwinsLOL for another whole ing year WHYYYYYYY!? Guess they really want him to move past Hogan, lol
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Post by rkmo: Just a Fact of Life on Feb 3, 2024 10:48:56 GMT -5
How does booking the Rock in the main event of Mania deflect from the Vince stuff? What does one have to do with the other? I just don’t understand how that changes anything. What I do think happened is Punk got hurt, Brock is done, and they panicked because they thought they had no “star power” for an event that’s essentially sold out and paid for. I think that’s what changed everything. Typical Vince booking, and Vince isn’t even there. It’s, in their minds, “bigger” news, a punt at anyway. At any sign of bad news a comin' you plop a Rock.
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Post by Evil Abed on Feb 3, 2024 10:58:45 GMT -5
So here's how i'd book this as a possible way out.
Seth already offered Cody a match at Mania for the World Title. Cody "accepts Seths challenge" and its important to state it that way so the Main Event Night 1 is Cody vs. Seth. Cody wins the World Title, and continues the "Cody beats Seth everytime" storyline and ends Night 1.
Night 2 Main Event - Roman vs. Rock. Roman gets his win over Rock, fireworks go off and you think that the night is over. Cody interrupts during the end credits and reveals he outmaneuvered Roman. When Seth challenged Cody he did not have to use his Rumble Title Shot. Therefore after an exhausted Roman beats Rock we get Roman vs. Cody and Cody finally takes the WWE Title from Roman to end Night 2 as the dual champion.
Seth gets his break due to injury (can come back as heel to fight Rhodes), Roman gets to face Rock, Cody more than finishes his story with both titles. And to boot if you don't want Cody as a double champion for long - you could still use Priest to cash in for the World Title down the road and not damage Cody as the WWE champion.
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Post by Liv Is Life on Feb 3, 2024 11:03:45 GMT -5
So here's how i'd book this as a possible way out. Seth already offered Cody a match at Mania for the World Title. Cody "accepts Seths challenge" and its important to state it that way so the Main Event Night 1 is Cody vs. Seth. Cody wins the World Title, and continues the "Cody beats Seth everytime" storyline and ends Night 1. Night 2 Main Event - Roman vs. Rock. Roman gets his win over Rock, fireworks go off and you think that the night is over. Cody interrupts during the end credits and reveals he outmaneuvered Roman. When Seth challenged Cody he did not have to use his Rumble Title Shot. Therefore after an exhausted Roman beats Rock we get Roman vs. Cody and Cody finally takes the WWE Title from Roman to end Night 2 as the dual champion. Seth gets his break due to injury (can come back as heel to fight Rhodes), Roman gets to face Rock, Cody more than finishes his story with both titles. And to boot if you don't want Cody as a double champion for long - you could still use Priest to cash in for the World Title down the road and not damage Cody as the WWE champion. So you make Cody look like gigantic wimp for needing to wait until Roman has already wrestled a match for him to beat him? That’s a sure fire way to absolutely kill Cody even further as “the guy”
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Post by Evil Abed on Feb 3, 2024 11:07:48 GMT -5
So here's how i'd book this as a possible way out. Seth already offered Cody a match at Mania for the World Title. Cody "accepts Seths challenge" and its important to state it that way so the Main Event Night 1 is Cody vs. Seth. Cody wins the World Title, and continues the "Cody beats Seth everytime" storyline and ends Night 1. Night 2 Main Event - Roman vs. Rock. Roman gets his win over Rock, fireworks go off and you think that the night is over. Cody interrupts during the end credits and reveals he outmaneuvered Roman. When Seth challenged Cody he did not have to use his Rumble Title Shot. Therefore after an exhausted Roman beats Rock we get Roman vs. Cody and Cody finally takes the WWE Title from Roman to end Night 2 as the dual champion. Seth gets his break due to injury (can come back as heel to fight Rhodes), Roman gets to face Rock, Cody more than finishes his story with both titles. And to boot if you don't want Cody as a double champion for long - you could still use Priest to cash in for the World Title down the road and not damage Cody as the WWE champion. So you make Cody look like gigantic wimp for needing to wait until Roman has already wrestled a match for him to beat him? That’s a sure fire way to absolutely kill Cody even further as “the guy” Or you make Cody look extremely intelligent for realizing he's not going to get a fair shake against Roman/Bloodline. Again, not ideal - trying to make the best of a bad situation here. I was not advocating for Rock/Roman.
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Post by Odafin Tutuola on Feb 3, 2024 12:10:06 GMT -5
So here's how i'd book this as a possible way out. Seth already offered Cody a match at Mania for the World Title. Cody "accepts Seths challenge" and its important to state it that way so the Main Event Night 1 is Cody vs. Seth. Cody wins the World Title, and continues the "Cody beats Seth everytime" storyline and ends Night 1. Night 2 Main Event - Roman vs. Rock. Roman gets his win over Rock, fireworks go off and you think that the night is over. Cody interrupts during the end credits and reveals he outmaneuvered Roman. When Seth challenged Cody he did not have to use his Rumble Title Shot. Therefore after an exhausted Roman beats Rock we get Roman vs. Cody and Cody finally takes the WWE Title from Roman to end Night 2 as the dual champion. Seth gets his break due to injury (can come back as heel to fight Rhodes), Roman gets to face Rock, Cody more than finishes his story with both titles. And to boot if you don't want Cody as a double champion for long - you could still use Priest to cash in for the World Title down the road and not damage Cody as the WWE champion. This idea is shit
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Post by JokerFC on Feb 3, 2024 13:19:20 GMT -5
Whole deal makes Rhodes look like an ass.
Wins RR...points at Reigns...confirms Reigns is his target. One half assed promo(so bad it had to be remixed for SD!) from Rollins & he switches the focus of his entire career...to go after the injured guy.
Also Codys promo on Sd! Made little sense either
Wow...utter nonsense 🤣🤣🤣
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The Real Chillary
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Chillary since day one ish
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Post by The Real Chillary on Feb 3, 2024 13:32:27 GMT -5
There's no round three here. Because fans just won't care next year.
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Old Zeke
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'Fraid old Zeke, he rides up here with me. Can't trust a pig with watermelons, you know.
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Post by Old Zeke on Feb 3, 2024 13:43:48 GMT -5
Me, when The Rock tears his pec while training for the match:
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